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Roger defeats Ferrer

22.11.2010 | Tennis, Starseite 1

Roger got off to a great start at the ATP World Tour Finals in London, defeating David Ferrer 6-1, 6-4 in his first match at the season-ending event.

"I'm really happy the way I was able to get out of the first match here," Roger said. "Looking at the scoreline, it doesn't reflect how tough it was. Usually 6-1, 6-4 kind of matches take an hour of play. Here, it took one hour 25 minutes I think."

Roger wasted no time and opened up a 4-0 lead in the first set. But it did not take long for Ferrer to fight back and score a break himself. But Roger simply increased the level of play and broke again in a marathon sixth game, which included six deuces, before serving out the set.The second set was another tough run, with Roger managing to break away with a 3-2 lead. Ferrer earned himself several break points until the end of the set - three alone upon Roger's final serve at 5-4 - but was not able to convert any of them as Roger kept his poise and finally clinched the win with an ace.

I'm watching the Nadal-Roddick match on ATP TV and I've been inserting comments in their Cover it Live thread. Every time I mention Rafa's cheating they don't post it. Finally I sent a post asking if I said Rafa was the greatest player ever and a god would they post it? And they sent me secret message in red saying that sometimes there are so many comments that they can't post them all. What a joke. They are so pro-Rafa. Sickening. GO ROGER!

I agree LUCAYA. How very strange! RN winning the Stephan Edberg trophy ????? I thought it was for sportmanship? I never saw much of it when RN plays. It's always me, me, me... I take my sweet time between points, and I take TO when I am losing. It's pretty sad.